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Should be interesting to see where they go. I don't think we've actually heard their real plan for distribution and billing yet, because I'm not entirely sure that what they've mentioned will work. I suspect we will hear of another transition on that.

Regardless, they've got funding and they're serious about this, so this is going to go further than most of these VPS panel projects we've seen through the years.

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It's absolutely ludacris. 15% revenue is an insane amount of money. For a startup, it might be a fine solution (especially if, which I assume, the 15% includes any transactions fees), but for any even remotely established company, that's a laughable amount. I'd love to meet whoever designed this idea.

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But since it is hosted and they appear to be handling the billing and payment gateway, well, perhaps alright.

Lots of small summerhosts, former fails, those without original thoughts in business should be attracted to it. All of which are crap magnets. Very spot on @GIANT_CRAB pointing to inevitable DDoS therapy they will receive.

... and remember this industry is littered with company owners who are LAZY. They love shopping at Walmart for single vendor dependency. Most of their life is three options maximum (outside of the fake choice in TV / media)... Single lazy person vendor mode = bad biz decision but so convenient. I can FULLY see people like this buying into this offer.

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It's absolutely ludacris. 15% revenue is an insane amount of money. For a startup, it might be a fine solution (especially if, which I assume, the 15% includes any transactions fees), but for any even remotely established company, that's a laughable amount. I'd love to meet whoever designed this idea.

They'll need some large scale filtering for sure. You should talk to @jarland about the old SAAS panel he used way back in the day and how many issues he had with it, DDOS being one of them. If he ever needed a reason to drink, that panel gave him a lifetime of them.

As I wrote on WHT, 15% is more margin than many brands make on an account. There's simply way too many brands that are operating many plans at or below cost (loss leaders to advertise), so an additional 15% isn't going to work for many people. I don't doubt they will find some operations that will be fine with it, especially if they're handling CC payments and such, but I think their original plan of being a serious Solus contender are over.

Seriously, just get in contact with HostGuard on their mailinglist or whatever. Richard has a huge update to his alpha/beta he put out last year that addresses many of the issues people had. I suspect he'll undercut Solus quite a bit as well.